By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Venus, naked, stands by a tree while a stag hunt takes place in the background
on paper
Dimensions: 12 cm x 8.7 cm
Collection Categories
Drawings and studies, Works on Paper / Vellum

Like No. 2009, these drawings cannot be precisely identified with any of the published Earthly Paradise poems. They may be designs for an early version of 'The Ring given to Venus', a poem for which Burne-Jones made his only engravings, on copper plate, but these were rejected.

The Fitzwilliam Museum
16/10/2021
Owner Dates Owned Further Info. and Accession no. circa
James Richardson Holliday (mispelt Holiday) 1927
The Fitzwilliam Museum 1925 - Present 1235.4 Bequeathed (1927-08) by Holliday, J. R
Title Author/Editor Year Page No. & Illustrations Attachments
The Last Pre-Raphaelite, Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination Fiona MacCarthy 2011
Illus pl. XXII between pp. 358-359 and 3, 13, 15, 30, 31, 32, 33 between pp. 486-487 and in the text pp. 71, 75, 192, 203, 238, 262, 268, 329, 330, 371, 425, 439, 449, 466 pp. 1-17, 21-66, 68-71, 75-116, 120-122, 124-129, 132, 134-151, 153-154, 156-168, 170, 172-177, 179-189, 189-203, 205, 207-214, 216-232, 234-235, 237-240, 242, 244-249, 251, 254-255, 257, 259-262, 264-276, 281-307, 309-317, 319-321, 323-330, 334-350, 357-361, 363-385, 387-389, 395, 398-400, 402, 405-416, 418-445, 451-462, 464-472, 478-481, 483, 485, 487-489, 491-498, 500-501, 504-517, 522-523, 525-530, 534, 536